Improved butter-worker



UNITED STATE-s PATENT VOrrin-n.

LEWIS S. INGRAHAIWI, OF GRAFTON, OHIO.

IMPROVED BUTTER-WORKER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 29,492, dated August '7, 1860.

.T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS S. INGRAHAM, of Grafton, inthe county of Lorain and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Torking Butter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, its construction and operation, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Fignre l is a perspective View, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section.

Like letters refer to like parts in both drawings.

In this specification and the drawings, A represents a conical roller tinted or ribbed on one-half (ormore,if desired) of its periphery; C, a roller-head or movable button set loosely into block D and supporting roller A; D, a block resting upon one leg and sustaining one end of fixed half of bed F; E, a short lever working on a pivot inside of block D; F, the stationary half of the bed of the machine; I I, an opening running lengthwise between the two portions F and S of the bed; H, a metallic gutter directly under opening I I, running nearly the whole length of machine and intended to catch and conduct away the milky duid or briny water; K, turn-table shaft, and L L bars set into shaft K.

T, in red lines, Fig. l, represents the roller A lying on the opposite side of bed, intended to show the ribs 1^ r.

P P represents two guards orside boards attached to the two parts of the bed, respectively, and R R end cleats or guards on lower end of bed. The whole bed has a declination from the point of its fastening to the block D toward and as far as the guard R R. The two portions of the bed are depressed toward the center of the bed or opening I I.

m represents a turn-table; two slots; N m2, two hinges; w, a g button supporting roller A when it is desired to remove the roller from the bed; y y and y y, two gutters grooved into the two parts of the bed F S, and g g a girt supporting the bed, dac.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

The girt g is made of any wood, of any dimensions which will insure strength enough to support the main body of the machine. It has two legs, one at either end. The parts of the bed of the machine represented byF and S are made of any suitable wood, each part in the form of a right-angled triangle, or very' nearly so, and when connected they are laid the hypotenuse of the one to the hypotenuse of the other, though leaving a sufcient space between to admit the passage of waste duid. Before connecting these parts with their supports g and D the side and end guards P P and R R are joined onto the two portions F and S of the bed, the gutters 'y y and y y are grooved, the metallic gutter H is attached to the two portions ot' the bed, the girt mortised to receive it, the slots x are made, the hinges N m2 are fit-ted to their places, and the hole is made in F to admit the shaft K. This done, the portion of the machine thus completed is laid upon the proper parts of the girt g and block D, which block is mortised to receive the end of bed, and the upper and lower ends of portion of bed represented by F is firmly attached to girt g and block D by nails or otherwise. The other portionS is left nnattached. One of the ends of girt gis mortised to allow the reciprocal motion of the button or support w. Previous to joining all the parts a hole is bored' in block D to admit the movable button or knob C. This button has a hole in the portion above the level of the block D large enough to admit the small end of conical tinted roller A. .The roller A is constructed of wood, which should be of a hard nature, and is of a conical form, with the apex resting in the button C. One-half of the periphery of this conical roller isribbed or luted, the ribs running lengthwise and varying in their depth from the center of the semicircle either way, constructed in this manner so that in the reciprocal motion of the rubber over the butter the iiutes shall not follow in the same gutters or depressions. The roller has a handle. The roller thus constructed is now laid upon the bed of the machine, the small end introduced into the hole in the knob O, and a screw or headed bolt insertedinto the small end of roller, with the head of screw or bolt outward, as shown in model. This arrangement secures the necessary play of the roller. The shaft K is now inserted in the hole made for it in the bed,

and the turn-table fm is nailed or otherwise fastened to the shaft, after which the bars' L L are inserted in the shaft K. (Shown in Fig. 2.)

The operation of the machine is very simple. The butter is laid upon the bed of the machine at m, the roller'A is rolledover it backward and forward, and the ribs 7'1", press- :ing into the butter and Working the milk out, make glitters in the butter, down which the fluid pressed from the butter descends to the gutters y y, thence passing through the slots x x and into the metallic gutter H, which con- Veys it away. This process is repeated as often as necessary until the butter is clean. The portion of the bed S is then folded over LEWIS S. INGRAHAM.

W'itnesses:

W. H. FISHER, WM. McGRAW. 

